Not donation — patronage. Three layers of support: patrons backing the work, grants backing specific phases, cooperative capital backing member-owned infrastructure.
Monthly or one-time patronage. Pay-what-you-can or pay-what-we-suggest. Funds the fixed costs of running the project in formation: research salaries, legal, travel to candidate sites, web and documentation infrastructure.
Become a patron →Foundation grants, program grants, research grants. Each phase of development has a costed line; institutional support lands against a specific deliverable, not a general fund.
Institutional gifts →Share capital from Core Members. Member loans with cooperative terms. Patient capital from aligned financial cooperatives. This is the largest layer, and it begins at Phase 2.
Become a member →
Intent, not a payment. No processor is wired yet — Stripe lands
with the v2 portal (DECISIONS §31). The form captures who wants
to back the work, at what tier, and roughly how much; the D1
patrons table is forward-compatible, so today's
intent carries directly into tomorrow's checkout.
Stripe wires up with the v2 portal; the D1 patrons
table captures intent today and is forward-compatible, so
signing on now doesn't require a second round of paperwork
once checkout is live.
Funding prospectus on the open web — phase budget, milestone dates, reporting cadence, named-support options. Named support where the institution requests naming; anonymous support welcome.
Three pages: the ask, the phases, the reporting cadence. Open the page in your browser and use Save as PDF — the HTML is the source.
Anonymous support welcome. Named support (naming rights on a specific phase, building, or research cycle) considered case-by-case; decisions documented in the public decisions log.
We publish a public ledger of money in and money out. The ledger
opens publicly at /support/transparency once there's
meaningful volume. Architecture is ready; publication is deferred
per decision D2.
In the meantime, the critical-path page tracks the seven legal items that gate Phase 2. Fundraising does not proceed past the founder circle until those resolve.